Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Moral Philosophy Quiz

The list below is modified by your input. The results are scored on a curve. The highest score, 100, represents the closest philosophical match to your reponses. This is not to say that you and the philosopher are in total agreement...

I’m pretty happy with it – even when I read the questions differently it just promoted Ockham and Kant a little but overall not much differenceand Nietzsche and Ayn Rand down the bottom group (athough I have some sympathy for Hume) and JB and JSM up the top. perfect.

Although to be honest, I'm still pretty undecided about meta-ethics, which seems strange to me. It seems like it must be such a burning question whether there is any moral truth, and I just can't decide.

And another Cantabrian at that! (How curious! Did you fall upon my site by accident?) I took Carolyn's course last year, it was easily one of my favourites. Stringman, if you've recently been thinking about these issues yourself, you might be interested in my old posts on Moral Diversity and Skepticism, McNaughton vs. Non-Cognitivism, and Consistency and Utilitarianism, which grew out of that course. As for the "burning question", I think what really matters here is not necessarily the question of truth per se, but more the question of ideality. (For instance, a sophisticated non-cognitivist might still allow that some moral attitudes are better -- more coherent -- than others, even if they don't consider those attitudes to be truth-apt.)

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